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Saving Seed of the New Zealand Pear – an organic gardener’s journey to the twilight zone

August 14, 2017 by Kate Walter

An acquaintance, a gardener, sent tomato seeds one year. Sharing seeds among gardeners fulfills part of the historical imperative that keeps plant varieties vital – the multiplication of seeds through dispersion. I took the important first step of planting some of the seeds she sent, and then I saved seed from the fruit of my…READ MORE >

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Filed Under: Food, Gardens, Seeds, Sustainability Tagged With: compost, D4D, garden, heirloom, herbicide, organic, seed, tomato

Celebrating Local Food, Celebrating the Mission Garden

December 19, 2013 by Kate Walter

Being a food explorer in the southwest can be a demanding job, and on Saturday, November 9, there was more than one community festival calling us. Leaving Las Milpitas de Cottonwood, we headed north, traveling a couple miles to reach the party at the Mission Garden to celebrate the November issue of Edible Baja. Published…READ MORE >

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Filed Under: Farming, Festival, Food, Gardens, History, Music, Seeds, Sustainability Tagged With: desert, food, garden, history, Kate Walter, Michael Wright, planting, seed library, seeds, sustainability, tucson, urban sustainability

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by Michael Wright

Garden of Radio Delights

Roll back the tape: 1960, Cincinnati, Ohio, 3 am. My upstairs bedroom.  Headphones on, I’m squinting in the dark at the lighted dial of my Hallicrafter S-38e short wave radio, with a Q-multiplier attached that I built from a Heathkit. The S-38e was produced from 1957 to 1961, making it the end of the Hallicrafters S-38 line of shortwave…READ MORE >

Music in the Wood: Harmonic Forms by Paul Fairchild

I climbed down out of the Crow’s Nest and spent a recent Saturday afternoon worrying a pile of knotty red oak rounds with a maul and wedge, whittling them down to size for the wood stove. As I split them open, I enjoyed seeing the beautiful swirling grains in the wood, exposed to the sunlight…READ MORE >

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